Showing your work, slide projection and why you photograph in the first place

MattKing said:

FWIW, the slide shows I attend now are with people I also regularly share prints with. Their purpose is generally more to share and enjoy photography than it is to follow along with someone's recent trip.
Sometimes they include travel photography - a friend's recent trip to Africa comes to mind - but the slide show's purpose isn't documentation, it is photographic.

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As it should always be.
Leave documentation for science and crime scenes.

Sirius Glass said:

What is wrong with 6x6 slides. Bausch & Lomb had a great slide projector that my father had for decades. It disappeared after his death. Maybe he took it with him.

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There is absolutely nothing wrong with 6x6 slides, just the automated 6x6 projectors were twice as expensive as the 35 mm (carrousel) projectors.

We had a vast SIMDA set for automatic sound projection mainly used for (commercial-) presentations on business fairs and product launching boots and alike.
A SIMDA projector was about half the price of a Hasselblad 6x6 projector, and as the carousel technique was mandatory for continuous projection, other linear tray 6x6 projector brands, like the very good Rollei, were out of the question.
The SIMDA's were renown for good 4x4cm projection (better luminescence than the Kodak Carousel) and they had Schneider lenses who could very well coop with that format...
The Simda sound sync system (pulse) was very reliable and could continuously operate without the supervision of a projectionist (computer controlled operation was still in its infancy, as well as the internet).
We had a few automatic reverse cassette tape recorders (JVC) providing sync pulses and sound effects: stereo plus a sync track.

And, sometimes we mixed 35mm and 4x4 slides, mainly for panoramic projections by setting two equal projectors side by side (and anchoring them).
Imagine, for the industry, a set two independent images in 4x4 (machinery, diagrams and text) next to each other alternated by a large panoramic view of an ambient setting of these machines...

Kodak had commercial/industrial carousel type projectors called Ektagraphic. They had an electronic addressing system that would allow you to select the slide slot you wanted to see. I used them when working for a company that designed and installed HVAC control systems in buildings. They cost $5-600 back then.


My draftsman would be given all the different flow diagrams for the systems we controlled and monitored. He would draw and paint in different colors on the back of glass about one foot square. Then we'd send the glass out to be photographed and returned as 35mm slides.

The Ektagraphic would be installed in a cabinet on the console desk the operator would sit at selecting which system he wanted to view and then get separate temperature and other readouts in a separate electronic meter to see what was happening in the building. This was in the late 60's and early 70's.

Of course, once everything went computer, flow diagrams were set up to display on the CRT screen that showed the temperatures and control points right on the screen's flow diagram. Draftsman lost their jobs and became IT specialists.

Helge said:

There is many ways to get that feeling. Conversations about boring stuff, being left with people you don’t click with, being tired, getting served food you don’t like etc.
A good host will have a very fine sense of what people are in the mood for and when patience is about to be worn out.
Keep casual shows short and energetic, and make sure that there is really a genuine interest.
Same as with many other social situations.

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Amen to that

Can't figure out why B&H projectors weren't as popular as Kodak's?

Must be something special about the Australian market .
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